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Will Bush Get ‘Saved’ Again?

By Chris Suellentrop June 28, 2007 4:59 pmJune 28, 2007 4:59 pm

David Corn, Washington editor for The Nation, predicts on his personal blog that the Bush administration will end not with a whimper but a bang: “With Democrats comparing Bush to Nixon — which is not fair…to Nixon (he was never as imaginative in his constitutional interpretations as Cheney) — these constitutional confrontations are probably heading toward the Supreme Court. Which means Bush could end his presidency much like he began it: being saved by justices appointed by him or his father.”

At the newly redesigned and reloaded-with-contributors group blog The American Scene, Noah Millman speculates about the “unpredictable” foreign policy of a President McCain: “I would anticipate at least one, and possibly multiple ‘hail Mary’ gambits. I would not be at all shocked if McCain attempted a serious rapprochement with Iran. I would also not be shocked if McCain got us into a war with China.”

Is it July 2007 yet? It’s never too early for the veepstakes! The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder and NBC News’s Chuck Todd publish their monthly National Journal presidential rankings. Their take on why Mike Huckabee Fever has yet to light out for the territories: “We still can’t figure out why this guy is so bad at organizational politics,” they write. “The organization doesn’t match Huck’s national potential. But move over, Tim Pawlenty. There’s a new VP front-runner.”

Umm, I sure hope you don’t mean “bang” literally. I can just see that sociopathic twit trying to keep himself out of impeachment/criminal court with a fake terrorist attack. It’s horribly obvious that he and his corrupt and arrogant crew don’t care at all how many people are harmed, provided their interests are served. Funny, though, if you read Bush’s personal history, it’s all about having to be bailed out of his failures, or bought into(or out of) situations by daddy and friends. Cold comfort is that if that bunch had been as competent as they are venal, mean-spirited and hypocritical, we’d be in even worse trouble. If that’s possible.

Bush had a lot to overcome. Nixon’s the one who sent me to Vietnam. However, Agnew’s criminal activity occured before he became Veep. Therefore I have had to conclude that Bush/Cheney team has surpassed the sleaze of Nixon/Agnew. And they were smart enough to know not to tape themselves. So they have shown enough intelligence to learn something from the mistakes of others. Still, there remains a sentimental loathing of Tricky Dick, even if I did find Basic Training worse than ‘Nam.